Kin W's notes on 52 Cool Facts About Social Media

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  • Facebook
  • The average Facebooker user has 130 friends
  • more than 25 billion pieces of contents is shared each month
  • including weblinks, bews stories, blog posts, notes, albums, etc.
  • over 300 thousand users helped translate the site through the translations application
  • More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month
  • 2/3 comScore's U.S. top 100 websites integrated with facebook
  • 1/2 Golbal top 100 websites have integrated with facebook
  • there are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through out their mobile devices
  • The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups, and events
  • people spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
  • There are more than 1 million entrepreneurs and developers from 180 countries on Facebook

  • Twitter
  • Twitter gets more than 300 thousand new users everyday
  • there are currently 110 million users of twitter's services
  • Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month
  • there are more than 600 million searhes on Twitter every day
  • Twitter start as a simple sms - text service
  • over 60 percent of twitter user is not in US
  • there are more than 50 thousand third-party apps for twitter
  • Twitter has donated access to all of it's tweets to the Library of Congess for research and preservation
  • More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone

  • LinkedIn
  • LinkedIn is the older than Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
  • Created on May 5 of 2003
  • more than 70 million users worldwide
  • Members of LinkedIn come from more than 200 countries from every continent
  • 80 percent of companies use LinkedIn as a recruitment tool
  • A new member joins LinkedIn every senond
  • Executives receives almost 12 million unique visitors per day
  • Executive from all Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn
  • Recruiters account for 1 in 20 LinkedIn Profiles

  • YouTube
  • The first video was uploaded on 23 April of 2005
  • By Jun 2006, more than 65 thousand videos were being uploaded every day
  • YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day
  • Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube
  • U.S. accounts for 70 percent of YouTube users
  • Over half of YouTube users are under the age of 20
  • You would need to live for around 1000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube
  • YouTube is availabe in 19 countries
  • Music videos accounts for 20 percent of uploaders
  • YouTube uses the same amount of Band Width as the entire internet used in 2000

  • Blogging
  • 77 percent of internet users read blogs
  • Currently there are 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati
  • 60 percent of bloggers are between the age of 18 and 44
  • 1/5 bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging
  • More than half of all bloggers are married and / or parents
  • More than 50 percent of bloggers have more than 1 blog
  • Bloggers use an aver of five different social networks to drive traffie to their blog